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Includes some 1857 clippings related to the dedication of the new 2nd Ave. building.

Includes responses to invitations.

Includes invitations, list of stewards, toasts, Theodore E. Tomlinson's "Tribute to Woman" (response to Luther Bradish's toast), event proceedings, George Bancroft's oration "The Necessity, the Reality, and the Promise of the Progress of the Human Race," and the menu from the Astor House, among other documents.

Documents relate to the distribution of the proceedings and attempts to collect payments on ticket subscription commitments.

Includes abstracts, correspondence, and speeches related to the December 6, 1859, N-YHS meeting at which Irving's death was announced, and the resolutions concerning holding a commemorative event in April 1860.

This set of folders principally includes responses to the invitations for tickets to the Irving celebration. See also: N-YHS General Correspondence (NYHS-RG 2), Series I, for a folder of many letters related to this event, including letters by William Cullen Bryant, Jared Sparks, Martin Van Buren, and others.

Includes the featured orator Edward Everett's letter conveying a newspaper clipping of his remarks at the event, with his annotated corrections, event tickets, and other print matter.

Includes three copies of the 1864 N-YHS document that reproduced John Pintard's 1810 festival document, with additional engravings. See also: Multiple additional copies of the 1864 reprint are also in the Print Room's Broadside Collection. The Print Room also holds one copy of the original 1810 document; see call number SY1810 no.94.

Includes minutes of committee meetings, lists of individuals sitting on the stage for the discourse by George William Curtis, Reception Committee candidates, and other lists.

Includes two seating charts of the Academy of Music, with some annotations indicating box seat assignments for some individuals.

Includes acceptances to attend the event from U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and from four Cabinet officials. Includes correspondence between Committee members.

Includes acceptances and regrets concerning invitations to be on the event's Reception Committee.

Includes printed invitations and tickets. The folder also includes two forms of 1874 related to Bryant: a form for subscribing toward funds for a vase in honor of Bryant to be placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a form directed to Bryant informing him of the initiative.

This folder and the next include notes regarding N-YHS's research into the location of Bradford's printing office.

Includes the memorial book produced by N-YHS.

Memorials provided for the N-YHS memorial book by: New York University, Presbyterian Hospital, Rutgers College, and Woodlawn Cemetery. Also included is a manuscript form of the N-YHS memorial.

Includes a few documents related to the printing of the memorial.

Includes acknowledgements from institutions that received one of the distributed memorial books.

Includes responses from special invitees and notices from member ticket purchasers of the names of their guests. The correspondence includes signed letters of regret from Woodrow Wilson (then President of Princeton University) and U.S. Secretary of State John Hay. The letters also include two letters of regret sent on behalf of the President from the White House.

Includes documents related to planning aspects of the banquet, especially the design of the commemorative menu (Dempsey & Carroll, designer), seating plan, wine purchases, and lists of attendees.

Includes ephemera and other printed items: guest invitation, forms related to ticket subscriptions and purchases, admission tickets to dinner (men only), admission tickets to the balcony (after dinner, women only), wine list, and seating plan. Also includes two silk(?) artifacts.

This set of five folders includes correspondence originally arranged in alphabetical order. Generally, this is by correspondent but related matters are held together as noted by summary notations on the reverse of each letter, which is a distinguishing characteristic of all the correspondence in these five folders. It is possible that this set of correspondence was maintained by N-YHS President Samuel V. Hoffman, who is the dominant addressee or signatory of the letters. Several of the correspondents and related subjects are also found in the second set of correspondence below.

This folder includes a list (L) of objects promised to the exhibition and minutes (M) of two meetings of N-YHS officers, including Samuel Hoffman, with the Committee of the Colonial Dames of America, including Alice Crary Sutcliffe.

Includes Alice Crary Sutcliffe.

This second set of correspondence was originally apart from the above set, and may have been a file of Librarian Robert Kelby. There is no definitive overall order to the documents, but it appears that this first folder includes correspondence with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission on various matters, including the donation of the Commission's records to N-YHS, while the second and third folders include other correspondents, principally concerning exhibition loans. Several of the correspondents and topics also appear in the above set of correspondence.

At the back of the register is an index by lender name.

Includes the ticket offering circular, tickets, ticket stubs, and acknowledgement forms.

Includes a manuscript copy of Stokes's address.

Includes marketing brochures of: speakers Charles Brook, George Francis Dow, William Osgood Field, Gilbert E. Gable, Gilbert McClurg, Harold Stark, and Fanny Washington; performers American Operatic Players, Laurance Hart (impersonating George Washington), Princess Atalie (singer), Te Ata (singer, dancer), and Lucia Gario.

Includes marketing brochures of speakers Madame Barry-Orlova, Victor Branson De Cou, William Webster Ellsworth, Charles Wellington Furlong, Ellsworth Jaeger, and various from Bralans Lecture Bureau.

This folder holds copies of the score that was originally distributed by N-YHS in December 1964; see also: New-York Historical Society manuscripts of lectures and addresses (NYHS-RG 11) for correspondence of 1865-1866 related to the original score.

Includes invitations, correspondence (acceptances and regrets), and event programs.

Includes a small number of acceptances and regrets for a reception for lecturer Peters.

Includes unused tickets to N-YHS events of September 1941-June 1942 repurposed as index cards, with contact information for potential invitees to the Odell event written on the back of the tickets.

Includes Hampden's remarks at the Odell event as recorded by the stenographer, with Hampden's edits.

Includes the remarks made at the event as recorded by the Stenotype Recording Company. Speakers include: George A. Zabriskie, Millard L. Robinson, Joseph Wood Krutch, Arthur Hobson Quinn, Walter Hampden, Walter Prichard Eaton, William Lyons Phelps, letter read from Nicholas Murray Butler, and George Clinton Densmore Odell.

Includes N-YHS President Beekman's remarks introducing speaker Grayson L. Kirk.

See also New-York Historical Society manuscripts of lectures and addresses (NYHS-RG 11) for a manuscript copy of Allan Nevins's address at this event, titled "The Golden Thread in the History of New York."

Includes the offering brochure for purchases of the sesqui-centennial medal, an award of merit to N-YHS from the American Association for State and Local History, and invoices.

Includes correspondence concerning the Commemorative Medal and a poster board from 1954 signed by the N-YHS staff.

This box includes only excess copies of tickets and other ephemera culled from the folders in the record group. Events represented in the box are: 66th Anniversary/Charles Francis Adams address, 100th Anniversary of the New York State Constitution/Charles O'Conor address, N-YHS Centennial Banquet, and "Sancte Claus, Goed Heylig Man!" facsimile score. Because the material is redundant it is available for internal use only.